Trevor Noah Credits Black Women For ‘Shaping’ Him In Final ‘Daily Show’ Episode

During Trevor Noah’s last occurrence of The Daily Show on Thursday (Dec. 8), the comedian thanked each his correspondents, friends, and fans who person been by his broadside for the past 7 years arsenic helium took implicit the table successful the aftermath of Jon Stewart’s departure. Trevor, 38, besides made definite to springiness “a peculiar shoutout to Black women” during his closing remarks. “I’ve often been credited with having these expansive ideas. Who bash you deliberation teaches me? Who bash you deliberation has shaped me, nourished me, [and] informed me? My mom, my grand, my aunts, each these Black women successful my life.”

“If you genuinely privation to larn astir America, speech to Black women,” continued Noah. “Because, dissimilar everybody else, Black women cannot spend to f-ck astir and find out. Black radical recognize however hard it is erstwhile things spell bad, particularly successful America, but anyplace wherever Black radical beryllium – whether it’s Brazil, whether it’s South Africa, wherever it is – erstwhile things spell bad, Black radical cognize that it gets worse for them. But Black women, successful particular, they cognize what crap is, genuinely.”

Vice President Kamala Harris and Trevor Noah (Everett Collection)

“People are ever shocked [and say] to me, ‘Why bash Black women crook retired the mode they bash successful America, wherefore bash they ballot [the mode they do] – they cognize what happens if things don’t spell the mode they should. They cannot spend to f-ck astir and find out,” said Trevor. He named writer and prof Roxane Gay, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Zoé Tsamudzi, Tarana Burke, and different “brilliant, superb women” who person shared their cognition and contented with him.

You volition beryllium missed @Trevornoah. You volition beryllium missed. I volition archer you guys a small story. When I was promoting Hunger, it was a crap show. Journalists had nary thought however to speech astir fatness. There was a nightmarish happening successful Australia with a billionaire’s daughter. https://t.co/IHfLy2ocES

— roxane cheery (@rgay) December 9, 2022

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— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) December 9, 2022

“If you genuinely privation to cognize what to bash oregon however to bash it, oregon possibly the champion mode oregon the astir equitable way, speech to Black women,” Noah added. “They are a batch of the reasons that I’m here. So, I’m grateful to them.”

Trevor Noah announced connected Sept. 29, 7 years and a time since taking implicit arsenic big of The Daily Show, that he would permission the program. “Maybe this comes with not being raised successful America, but I judge that everything should end,” Trevor told The Hollywood Reporter about his decision. “A batch of American concern and American media is conscionable like, ‘Keep it going arsenic agelong arsenic possible,’ but I deliberation it’s steadfast for things to extremity erstwhile they’re inactive successful a bully place. I privation to permission earlier I’m burnt retired due to the fact that determination are galore different things I’d similar to do.”

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